Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,285, John Flint, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Flint, John Phebe
26. 19,285-
CONTENTS

RI 858 Massachusetts
John Flint of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stephen Dorr of the 1st Regt commanded by Col. Burnham in the Mass line for York
Mr.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maria Smith at the rate of 25 Dollars. 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Nov 1833 and sent to Mrs. Corbin or her order Pending Map.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 £55 93 Semi-ant. allowance ending Dec 1833 11 17 70 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. A. Johnson Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 9 Page 26
74 Whodunnit

1426
Massachusetts
Phoebe Flint Mass widow of John Flint who was a Private in the Mass line for 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars & 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of August, 1843 and sent to Mrs. B. Finch Boston, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 42.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 1838 from 4 March 1840 to 4 March 1841. Agt. Notified 1. Oct. 1840
Rep. Augt 10

John Flint
27.018 John Flint
Power of Attorney Capt Richardson's Co Col Garrison's Regt Mass
23 33 3/4 46 66 1.87 55.53
John Prescott Esq Reading Mass
their statement is entitled to credit has also signed the same is a legitimate resident of the Confidence is a Clerkenwell resident in resided as he states. And the Court further confirms that interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the aforementioned applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and And the said Court further declares its opinion that the investigation of the matter and after hearing the and that the said and is a credible person and that who has signed the proceeding

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ss.
On this Sept 2 day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE SAMUEL P. P. FAY, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, John Flint , a resident of Reading , in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
he enlisted under Captain John Flint in the first part of September 1777 to guard Boston and did duty in his company on Long Wharf in Boston eighteen days; all discharged in the first part of October in the same year he enlisted m. d. in Reading in Captain John Dix' company & .18 marched to Boston, thence to Fort No 2 in 3.15 Cambridge, thence to Weston & served in 2.27 said company three months & fifteen days 7.00 until said company was discharged:
he enlisted in October 1779 in Captain Addison Richardson's company in Col. Jacob Gennish's Regiment, at Reading, & marched to Greenbush in the state of New York where he served in said company three months, or a day or two short of that time, till said company was discharged there - making in the whole seven months service as a private soldier -

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Which Isaac Foshe
John X Flint
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
J. P. P. Gray
JUDGE OF PROBATE.
We, Reuben Emerson a clergyman, residing in South Reading, and John Hart Esquire, a magistrate, residing in South Reading aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Flint who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
John Hart
Reuben Emerson
Subscribed and sworn to before
J. P. P. Gray
W. Cook

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Reuben Emerson who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in South Reading and that the said John Hart who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at South Reading and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. Fay  W. B.
I, ISAAC FISKE , Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Flint for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this of September A. D. 1832.
W. M. day Isaac Fiske

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,"
State of Massachusetts, } ss County of Middlesex }
On this twenty fifth day of August A.D. eighteen hundred & thirty eight
Phoebe E. Flint
personally appeared before the the judge of probate of Essex County a resident of Reading in the county of Middlesex aged seventy five years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of John Flint of said Reading who was a * private in the Massachusetts Militia ; that she has no recollection of the services performed by her deceased husband the said John, nor does she know of any living witness who can testify to the said services; that her husband the aforesaid John Flint was a pensioner under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832; that his name was placed on the pension List Roll of the Massachusetts Agency on the 13 th Nov. 1833; that the evidence of his aforesaid services is to be found in the War Department at Washington -
And she positively declares, that she is the widow of the said John Flint, & that at the time of the commencement of his service he was an inhabitant of Reading in the County & State aforesaid -
She further declares that she was married to the said John Flint on the twenty sixth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and ninety one; that her husband, the aforesaid John Flint died on the twenty sixth day of August eighteen hundred & thirty six; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz.: at the time above stated. and she declares she has not been married since his death.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, by said Phoebe Flint at a Special Court at said Reading
J. P. P. Gay judge of Probate Abel Sprague
* Here insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy, or militia, as the case may be, and specify the service performed, as directed in rule numbered one of these regulations.

War Department.
PENSION OFFICE, JULY 17, 1838.
The following rules, prescribed by the President of the United States, and adopted by the Secretary of War, in order to carry into effect the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," are published for the information of applicants under that law:—
1. Applicants must produce the best proof the nature of the case will allow, as to the service of the deceased officer or soldier, and the time when he died. It must be clearly shown in what troop or company, and regiment or corps, he served, and the grade he held. Proof, as to service, must be had, either from the records of the War Department, the muster rolls, the testimony of commissioned officers, or the affidavits of persons of known respectability. Every applicant will make a declaration according to the subjoined form, before a court of record, setting forth, according to the best of her knowledge or belief, the name and rank of the person on account of whose service the claim is presented; the day, month, and year, (if possible,) when he entered the service, and the time when he left the same; and, if under more than one engagement, the claimant must specify the particular periods, and the rank and names of the officers under whom the service was performed; the town or county, and state in which he resided when he entered the service; whether he was drafted, was a volunteer, or substitute; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged; the country through which he marched, with such further particulars as may be useful in the investigation of the claim; and, also, if the fact be so, that the claimant has no documentary evidence in support of the claim. From the best sources of information, evidence must be derived as to the period of the death of the officer or soldier.
2. The legality of the marriage, and the time when it took place, must be clearly established; and it must also be shown that the widow was never afterwards married. Record proof, as to the marriage is always required, whenever it can be obtained. In a case where the town, county, parish, church, or family records afford no proof as to the period when the marriage took place, the fact must be established by the testimony of one or more respectable persons, whose credibility must be certified by the officer who may administer the oath. And, in order to prevent any mistake or improper use that may be made of the affidavit of an officer who may have the custody of records, from which he may make transcripts of the record, in relation to a marriage, the officer who may give his affidavit will, instead of copying the figures contained in the record, certify "that it is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows:" [Here copy the day, month, and year, in letters and figures, in exact conformity with the original. Then let him add the following words:]
"I, A. B., above named, depose and say, that I hold the office _____ in the county, town and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said _____ with the exception above named, as certified by me.
A. B., Clerk of the
(or rector, or pastor, as the case may be.)
Sworn before me, C. D., Justice of the Peace.
And then will follow the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, as to the official character and signature of the magistrate who may administer the oath. Where no record proof exists, other than the family record, the original record must be produced and sworn to by the person in whose possession it has been kept.
3. In a case where the service of deceased officer or soldier is clearly proved by record or documentary evidence, or the affidavit of a commissioned officer, showing the grade or length of service of the deceased, the particulars in relation to the service are not required to be set forth in the claimant's declaration; but she must swear, in positive terms, that she is the widow of the person whose service is thus proved. And no claim whatever can be sustained without positive proof of service.
4. In every case in which the deceased officer or soldier was a pensioner, the fact should be so stated, and the deceased pensioner so described, as to enable the Department to refer immediately to the evidence upon which he was pensioned, and thus facilitate the investigation of the claim of the widow.
5. Applicants, unable to appear in court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, before a judge or justice of a court of record of the county in which the applicant resides, and the judge or justice will certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
6. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a judge or justice of a court of record, or by a justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State, or of the Territory, or of the proper officer or clerk of the court or county, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such a person is a judge, or justice of a court of record, or a justice of the peace, and that the signature annexed, is his genuine signature.
7. The widows of those who served in the navy, or as Indian spies, will produce proof, as nearly as may be, conformably to the preceding regulations, and authenticated in a similar manner, with such variations as the different nature of the service may require.
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
AN ACT
Granting half pay and pensions to certain widows and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any person who served in the war of the revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," have died leaving a widow, whose marriage took place after the expiration of the last period of his service, and before the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, such widow shall be entitled to receive, for and during the term of five years, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband in virtue of said act, if living at the time it was passed: Provided, That in the event of the marriage of such widow, said annuity or pension shall be discontinued.
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That no pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim or interest, in any
annuity, half-pay, or pension granted by this act shall be valid, nor shall the half-pay, annuity, or pension, granted by this act, or any former act of Congress, be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any process in law or equity, but shall enure wholly to the personal benefit of the pensioner or annuitant entitled to the same; and that before a warrant shall be delivered to any person acting for, or in behalf of, any one entitled to money under this act, such person shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, to be administered by the proper accounting officer, and put on file, that he has no interest in said money by any pledge, mortgage, transfer, agreement, understanding, or arrangement, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any other person.
SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall adopt such regulations and forms of evidence in relation to applications and payments under this act, as the President of the United States may prescribe.

Phoebe Flint
890
Mass.
act 7 July 38
Married in 1790
Died in 1836
adm
7 mo pri
$23.33
deduct due 26
aug 1836 per.
com: 27 aug '36.
Isaac Fiske
E. Cambridge
Mass.

State of Massachusetts
Middlesex County ss.
Town of Reading August 16. 1838.
I Daniel Pratt Jr. the subscriber do hereby certify that it appears by the Registry of Marriages in the records of the Town of Reading in said County of Middlesex that there is contained the following entry of Marriages viz.
" May twenty six, seventeen hundred ninety one John Flint and Phebe Flint. were married by the Revd Eliab Stone.
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the records with the exception of the date which is expressed in fair legible figures as follows viz.
1791. May 26.
John Flint and Phebe Flint were married by the Revd Eliab Stone.
I Daniel Pratt Jr. above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records with the exception above named as certified by me
Daniel Pratt Jr. Clerk of said Town of Reading.
Sworn to before me
Joshua Prescott Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss.
I Isaac Bates the younger of the Court of Probate now and for the County of Middlesex hereby certify that Saml D D'Fay Esq. is the Judge of said Court & that his signature written on the papers hereto annexed is his genuine signature I also certify that Joshua Prescott Esq. is a justice of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that his signatures written on the several papers hereto annexed are his genuine signatures
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this twenty eighth day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and truly right
Isaac Bates Esq.

mas November 24, 1925
Miss Alice B. Eaton c/o O. J. Powers & Sons Athol, Mass.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 19285, it appears that JOHN FLINT , while living in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts , enlisted September 1, 1777, and served eighteen days as private in Captain John Flint's Massachusetts Company. He enlisted October 1, 1777, and served three months and fifteen days as private in Captain John Dix's Company, Colonel Greaton's Massachusetts Regiment. He enlisted in October, 1779, and served nearly three months as private in Captain Addison Richardson's Company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, at which time he was seventy-two years of age and a resident of Reading, Massachusetts. He died there August 26, 1836.
He married May 26, 1791, at Reading, Massachusetts, Phebe Flint. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 25, 1838, at which time she was seventy-five years of age and a resident of Reading, Massachusetts.

This Bureau is unable to furnish the full history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his service, and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the service of CAPTAIN JOHN FLINT.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

Rev 19.285
WIDOW, &c.
No. 19.285-
Phoebe Flint Widow of John Flint Dis Rev was
Act: March 3 rd 48
Box:—Vol. A , Page 248
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Sept. 15, 1905 H. H. Flint Milliment Descendants of Rev. Soldin no little to pension
1925 Nov. 24 hist. D Miss Alice B. Eaton Mrs.

John Flint Mass. act 7 June when last fid?
S. M. C.
act 3. 1838
Died 26 Aug. 836 p st to that period
JH

A new certificate was opened in this case under the opin- ion of the Atty. Genl. of 2 d September 1842 which was given in consequence of the Resolution of Congress of the 16 th August 1842
Reported See letter to P. Sgt Decr: 21. 42.
Massachusetts. 599
Phebe Flint widow of John Flint dec d
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 26 Aug t 1836 of Middlesex in the State of Mass: who was a Pri st in the Company commanded by Captain Richardson of the Regt, commanded by Col. Gerrish in the Mass: line for 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Ending 26 Aug. 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of Decr: 1842 and sent to Elijah Clark Esq. Brighton, Mass.
Arrears to the 24 th of Aug. 36 Semi-annual allowance ending
$55.13
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Theo: S. Woody Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 87.

Massachusetts - 599
Phoebe Flint, widow of John Flint, dec.
who was a pensioner under the Act of June 7. 1832 and who died on the 26 th August 1836 of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts who was a P.M. in the County commanded by Captain Richardson of the Reg't. commanded by General in the Massachusetts line for 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 22 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st day of March, 1834. 27 th Aug t 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of Oct r '38, and sent to and drawn by Fiske, B. Cambridge, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r $ 49.99 Semi-annual allowance ending 16.66 $ 66.65
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 - Page 87.
Let 63 Aud June 20. 1842.

I David Parker of Reading in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts do depose and say that I enlisted in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war in October 1779 into the Company commanded by Col Addison Richardson in Col Jacob Gerrish's Regiment for three months and went from Reading aforesaid to Greenbush in the State of New York and there I served as a private soldier till we were regularly discharged which if I recalled right, was a little short of three months. During which time I was well ac- quainted with John Flint of said Read- ing who enlisted with and served in the same company the same term of time and as I and said Flint and with the company were dismissed together or aforesaid. August 30. 1872 David Parker
State of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss.
On this thirtieth day of August A.D. 1872 personally appeared the above named David Parker and made oath the facts contained in the above Deposition by him subscribed were true before me Joshua Prescott Jus. Peace. And I further certify that the above named David Parker is a credible and disinterested witness. Joshua Prescott Jus. Peace.

State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. Reading Aug. 25 1838.
I, Amos Upton of Reading in the County & State aforesaid woman being of lawful age do depose & say that John Flint of said Reading a soldier of the Revolution died on the twenty sixth day of August in the year eight hundred thirty six. That Phebe Flint of Reading the present applicant is the widow of the said John, & has not been married since his decease
Amos Upton
State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. Reading Aug 25. 1838
Then the above named Amos Upton personally appeared & made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition by him described were true, according to his best knowledge & belief. And I further certify that the said Amos Upton is a credible witness.
Before me
Joshua Puscott
Justice of the Peace.

State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. Reading Aug 25. 1838
I David Flint of Reading in the county & State aforesaid, being of lawful age, do depose & say that John Flint of said Reading in the a soldier of the Revolution, died on the twenty sixth day of August in the year eighteen hundred & thirty six; that Phoebe Flint of said Reading the present applicant is the widow of the said John - & has never been married since his decease
(David Flint)
State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. Reading Aug. 25. 1838
Then the above named David Flint personally appeared & made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, were true, according to his best knowledge & belief - And I further certify that the said David Flint is a credible witness.
Before me
Joshua Prescott
Justice of the Peace -

1526
Phebe Flint
$23:33 per an
Th. Bulfinch Boston Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. } Middlesex County - } ss.
Be it known that on this twenty second day of May 1843. personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Phebe Flint a resident of Reading, in said County and Commonwealth, aged eighty years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d . day of March 1831. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of John Flint who was a Private in the Revolutionary War, and served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the law of the 7 th of July 1838. to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same now on file in the War Department she would refer for a more particular statement of his services for the proof of her marriage, identity and the time of her husband's death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said act at the rate of Twenty Three 33 / 4 Dollars per annum, which amount she received from the 4 th of March 1836. to the 4 th of March 1840. at the Agency in Boston, Massachusetts, leaving one years pension still due under said law, the papers relating to which, including the original Pension Certificate granted some years  date were forwarded to the Hon. Caleb Cushing, Member of Congress from this District since which time they have not been heard from tho' efforts are now about being made to procure the settlement of the claim at the Treas y . Dept. at which time the original certificate, if found, will be given up.

and this declarant further alleges that she has not intermarried since the death of her said husband, but is now and ever since has been the widow of said John Flint dec d . as will more fully appear by the proof hereunto annexed. And further she saith not
Witnesseth W m W. Nichols
Phoebe Flint
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first within written: and I certify that the applicant is personally known to me to be the person within described Before me
Edw is Foster Justice of the Peace
I M rs W. Nichols of Reading, in the County of Middlesex, of lawful age on oath testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Phoebe Flint dec d & have been for many years last past. I know that she was the wife of John Flint dec d . and that she was a pensioner under the law of 1834. as within stated & has not intermarried since the decease of said John Flint. I believe the statements made by her are strictly true.
William W. Nichols
Middlesex County, ss. May 22 d 1840. - Sworn and subscribed by said M rs W. Nichols who is a credible witness and entitled to belief before me
Edw is Foster Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston May 30 th 1843 -
I hereby Certify , That at the date of the annexed attestation Edwin Foster was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
M. A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Ebenezer Parker of North Reading in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of seventyseven years on oath depose and say, that some time in the first part of October in the year 1877 I enlisted in Reading in said Middlesex in the company under Capt. John Dix & marched to Boston, whence after a few days we were ordered to Fort Number Two in Cambridge & from there to Weston where the company worked several weeks in cutting road, & that John Flint of Reading enlisted in the same company & served at the same places with myself in Colonel Greyton's Regiment till the end of our enlistment which was three months, and also about fifteen days more after our term of service expired on account of the new recruits not coming in soon enough to supply our places. (his m) Ebenezer (mark) Parker
Middlesex p. August 8 th 1882. Then the above named Ebenezer Parker personally appeared before me and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true & he is a credible & disinterested witness. John Hart Justice of the Peace
Middlesex p.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Middlesex, hereby certify that John Hart whose own proper signature is set to the above certificate & that Joshua Prescott whose own proper signature is set to the certificate on the deposition of Daniel Parker hereto annexed are Justices of the Peace in the said county of Middlesex.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this fifth day of September A.D. 1882 Isaac Fiske.

Phoebe Flint Phoebe Flint Mass.
Act 7. July 38
Certificate $23.33 from 4 March 31 to 26 Aug 36 - the day of her husband's death
Elijah Clark Brighton Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss.
On this eighth day of December eighteen hundred and forty two, personally appeared before me Edwin Foster, a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex. Phebe Flint a resident of Reading in said County. Seventy nine years of age, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension which she claims from the fourth of March 1836. to the twenty sixth of August 1836. from which period she has been already paid, with the exception of the last year's payment, under the Act of the seventh of July 1838; and the Declarant further alleges that she is still the Widow of John Flint who was a private in the Revolutionary War. That her pension was allowed at the rate of twenty three dollars, and thirty three cents per annum, and was paid to her at the Agency at Boston in the State of Massachusetts, and further she saith not. Phebe Flint
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Before Me,
Edwin Foster justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that Phebe Flint who has signed and made oath to the above declaration, is well known to me to be the widow of John Flint deceased and that it is reputed she has received a Pension from the United States for the services of her said husband in the war of the Revolution.
Edwin Foster justice of the Peace

Courts of New York
Dec. 8. 1842
The within Edition of the preamble of the Act for the Courts of Underwriters. Witness the hand of the Hon.
John P. Bissell
Chair of the Committee

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Oct. 14 th 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Phoebe Flink a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Twenty Three Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1840, to the 4 th March 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

O. J. POWERS & SONS
O.J.POWERS ERNEST O.POWERS A.I.POWERS
MANUFACTURERS OF MEN'S, BOY'S AND CHILDREN'S STRAW BRAID & BODY
HATS
ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS
October 15, 1925
Winfield Scott, Commissioner of Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,
Recorded in the Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 5, Page 795 is the record of a soldier, John Flint, Captain, from Reading, Massachusetts.
I am a descendant of John Flint of Reading, Mass. and am told this is my ancestor. Will you kindly look up your pension records and advise me if a pension was paid to anyone on the record of this soldier and if so to whom, with what other data you may have on your records.
I will appreciate it as I want it for filling in papers for the Daughters of the American Revolution. Any expense I will gladly pay if you advise me.
Thanking you for a reply as soon as possible I remain,
Yours respectfully,
Miss Alice Belle Eaton
% O.J.Powers & Sons,
Athol, Mass.